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Eaton, Deborah – 1997
This book is a hands-on activity resource for kindergarten and first grade that makes phonics instruction easy and fun for teachers and children in the classroom. The book offers methods for practice, reinforcement, and assessment of phonetic skills using a poem as a foundation for teaching short vowels. The poem is duplicated so children can work…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
Eaton, Deborah – 1997
Intended for teachers of kindergarten and first grade, this book offers hands-on activities that make phonics instruction easy and fun for teachers and children in the classroom. The book provides methods for practice, reinforcement, and assessment of phonics skills. A poem is used to introduce the phonics element of this book, rhyming words. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
Summers, Claudia – 2000
A study examined the effectiveness of specific teaching strategies in the reading curriculum that would help underachieving first-grade students meet reading standards by the end of the school year. Subjects, 6 underachieving students, were given the Basic Phonics Skills Test (BPST), the Results high frequency word list, and the Results reading…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 1, Low Achievement, Parent Participation
Research on the Prevention of Reading Problems: Are Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers Listening?

Bursuck, William D.; Munk, Dennis D.; Nelson, Cynthia; Curran, Margaret – Preventing School Failure, 2002
A survey of 549 kindergarten and first grade teachers examined attitudes toward, and knowledge of, beginning reading practices that have been shown to prevent reading failure, including explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and word identification skills. Teachers generally had positive attitudes toward explicit reading approaches, especially…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Individualized Instruction, Kindergarten

Stein, Marcy; Johnson, Barbara; Gutlohn, Linda – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
A review of research identified features characteristic of effective reading programs, especially explicit phonics instruction integrated with vocabulary of student reading materials. Analysis of several commercially published first-grade basal reading programs found significant discrepancies between strategies supported by the literature and the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
Freppon, Penny A. – 1989
A study was conducted to shed light on the influence which children's developmental stage in learning to read and the reading instruction they receive have on first-graders' reading concepts. The study provided descriptive information to answer the following questions: (1) Do children from literature-based and skill-based instructional settings…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Graphemes
Rosier, Helen Cody – 1978
The teacher's guide accompanies the student-reader workbook of "Nashdoi." Organized in the same format as the "Ch'al" and "Chaa" books, "Nashdoi" builds on the vocabulary introduced in those two readers. The consonant "x," 14 new vowel environments, 7 new diphthong environments, and 102 new words are introduced. This teacher's guide is organized…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity
LASHINGER, DONALD R.; SHELDON, WILLIAM D. – 1966
THIS STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFECTS OF A BASAL READER PROGRAM, A MODIFIED LINGUISTIC APPROACH, AND A LINGUISTIC READER PROGRAM AS MEASURED BY THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 469 CHILDREN IN 21 CLASSES AT THE END OF FIRST GRADE. ACHIEVEMENT COMPARIONS WERE ALSO MADE ON THE BASES OF (1) SEX, (2) INTELLIGENCE, AND (3) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN READING READINESS…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis

Carnine, Linda; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Concludes that in the first stage of reading, students appear to make relatively few nonsense errors on familiar words, whether they are taught with a meaning-based or phonics approach. However, if initial instruction emphasizes phonics, real word substitutions tend to be graphically constrained; with initial meaning-emphasis instruction,…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Developmental Stages, Economically Disadvantaged, Error Analysis (Language)
Majsterek, David J. – 1986
A study examined the performance on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for first grade students from a rural northwestern school who had received reading instruction via a structured, phonics-based reading program. Specifically, the study compared the performance of (1) three students scheduled for retention because of poor…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Grade Repetition, Grade 1
MOQUIN, L. DORIS; SPENCER, DORIS U.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT-2673 WAS EVALUATED. THE STUDY REPEATED THE PROGRAM IN MANY OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSES AND EXTENDED THE METHOD TO NEW FIRST-GRADE CLASSES. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE CLASSES WAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF FIRST GRADES TAUGHT BY THE BASAL READER METHOD. THE STUDY CONTINUED…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Levin, Harry; Mitchell, Joanne R. – 1969
Investigation and coordination of research on various aspects of the reading process were the first purposes of Project Literacy. These programs in their various stages of development have been reported in nine issues of the Project Literacy Reports which are now available from ERIC. The development of a first-grade reading program was started…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Evaluation, Grade 1

Chapman, Marilyn L. – Young Children, 1996
Discusses the developmental aspects of the relationship between speech and print and examines the debate as to whether first-grade students acquire phonemic awareness by reading and writing the language or whether that awareness is best arrived at by direct teaching of phonics. Presents case study of one first grader's literacy development. (ET)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Elementary School Curriculum, Emergent Literacy

Klesius, Janell P.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1991
Examines the differences in the effectiveness of whole language and traditional instruction in end-of-the-year reading, writing, and spelling achievement for children with varying levels of incoming phonemic awareness, reading, and writing ability. Finds that neither program was more likely to close gaps between children high or low in these…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
Carrasco, Miguel A. – 1994
A study investigated the effects of the literature-based reading instruction on the reading achievement of Mexican-American first graders in Spanish. Using a posttest-only control group design and "t" test for independent samples, results indicated that after three months the experimental group of 30 students (attending a 100% Hispanic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students